A first meeting that looks like a fist.
Several violent incidents erupted during the first official gathering of 2022 presidential candidate Éric Zemmour at the Exhibition Hall in Villepinte, this Sunday, December 5, 2021, according to journalists present on site and the images broadcast on social networks, unlike those provided on television by the candidate's team.
When entering the Hall des Expositions in Villepinte in Seine-Saint-Denis for his first campaign rally, Éric Zemmour, far-right presidential candidate was first victim of an assault on the part of one of the participants.
A fight broke out during the speech
A man in a brown shirt pounced on the former reporter, his hands pointing to his neck.
He was immediately dismissed by the security system which escorted the candidate to the platform of the Exhibition Hall.
It's full of love and serenity, the Zemmour meeting… # ZemmourVillepinte pic.twitter.com/GKEsADT2au
- Marcel (@ realmarcel1) December 5, 2021
Later, a fight broke out as SOS racism activists, present there, attempted a happening, standing on chairs at the back of the room, fists raised, trying to display the message "No to Racism ".
Several people immediately beat the demonstrators.
Chairs have been thrown.
“We are peaceful activists, we are staunch anti-racists.
I thought that we were in a democracy and that we could have said what we had to say without physical consequences, ”declared one of the demonstrators, her face bleeding, following several blows against her, questioned by several. journalists, once evacuated outside the room.
" NO TO RACISM !
»@SOS_Racisme leads an action inside the meeting of #Zemmour: general fight between the security, the militants and the participants.
pic.twitter.com/WmXjCHxUNl
- Clément Lanot (@ClementLanot) December 5, 2021
Under a shower of gibes, several journalists from the television show Quotidien were also temporarily exfiltrated from the first meeting of Eric Zemmour, this Sunday, December 5, a few minutes before the entry on the scene of the far-right presidential candidate 2022.
